A home invasion in the early morning of May 5, 2022, ended in deadly violence at a Wilson Street residence in El Dorado, Arkansas. Forty-one-year-old Willie Hicks Jr. was shot in the head during the intrusion and was taken to the Medical Center of South Arkansas on life support; he died of his injuries on May 9, 2022. His fiancée, Jakeia Washington, was shot twice, physically assaulted, hospitalized, and later transferred to a Little Rock hospital where she recovered.

El Dorado police identified 29-year-old Charles C. Miller, reportedly an acquaintance of Hicks, as a suspect; Miller was already in custody on unrelated charges when he was named. After Hicks’s death, authorities upgraded charges against Miller to include capital murder, attempted capital murder, and aggravated residential burglary. The investigation indicates Miller broke into the home, but a clear motive has not been established.

If anyone has information about the events at the Wilson Street residence on May 5, 2022, or about contacts between Hicks and Miller, please share what is known.